Occasionally Snarky and Meta

First, the index.

( Re-Read Index )

And the analysis.

( Analysis )

Last segment: Sirius told his story to a (very) recently convinced Remus and a slightly less convinced Harry, Ron and Hermione. And then Snape turned up.

LJ is being weird, so you may get this in your feed twice.

( Death before betrayal )

We left off with Sirius breaking into the boys' dormitory, Remus finding out about the map, and Hermione telling Harry and Ron Buckbeak's fate.

( Everything gets greater and more terrible than before )

Let's see if it  works this time.

( Deck the halls with stark betrayal )

Chapters 1-2

Chapters 3-4

Chapters 5-6

Chapters 7-8


( Quidditch, Dementors and backstory, oh my! )

Next up: No good deed goes unpunished...

Chapters 1-2

Chapters 3-4

Reminders: There's spoilers for all of the books here. Also, FFP is Fangirl of Fandoms Past. She stole a time turner and ended up here. She may or may not remind some of you of certain people...

( Dementors and other grim things )

And now, rec time! I said yesterday that if you wanted, you could rec a fic taking place during or heavily referencing PoA, and I'd link to it. Today's rec is Introspection by daintress. (Written before DH.) Feel free to rec a fic, whether it's someone else's or your own!

 I'm doing a re-read of the third Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. I promise I'm actually going through with this one. It's easier recapping a book than several seasons of a TV show.

The book takes place in 1993. I read it in 1999. December, to be exact. I was fourteen and in 8th grade.

I had read the first two(!) books that summer, because nobody would shut up about it.I finally gave in, and realized I was dealing with something special. Still, the books were cute to me; they were still written for a younger audience, and it was obvious to me.

Then there was PoA, where Harry's aunt calls his dead mother a bitch and he has memories of his parents being murdered. Not the darkest thing a book has ever done, but still, it's more real than an evil snake (that apparently can go a thousand years without food) petrifying people. No, Dementors don't really exist, but triggers do, and Dementors make you remember things you don't want to think about, maybe didn't even know you remembered. That's very, VERY real. Knowing this, I really looked at the HP books a different way.

Then fandom came along, and I loved PoA more because it had "MWPP" (Moony Wormtail Padfoot and Prongs), more specifically Remus and Sirius. I had a huge fangirl crush on Remus, and while I always thought Sirius was a bit screwed up and wasn't remotely surprised  by OoTP, I liked his character too. I loved the story of MWPP altogether, of course - it was just so tragic, this group of best friends torn apart by war. One of them a misunderstood werewolf, the other a misunderstood criminals. I was also going through my slightly emo phase, so that helped. I thought most Sarah McLachlan songs fit the Marauders' hardship.

But as time has passed, and the books have come and gone, I've realized I may have loved what PoA became to me, became to fandom, more than the actual book. Meanwhile, we learned in later books that fandom's initial perception of the Marauders wasn't necessarily correct. Nor did we necessarily get the point. Or did we?

That's partly why I want to re-read PoA. I want to read it now that I've taken a bit of a step back from the MWPP aspect of fandom - I still dabble, and I still love the books, but although I've re-read PoA before, it was always with fandom lenses. In other words, skipping most of the trio parts (except anything with the slightest hint of Ron/Hermione) and going straight for the MWPP goodness. What I really want to do now is look at how the book set up the rest of the series, as well as the story itself. From an unbiased, less fangirly POV.

However, I will warn you - I used a Time Turner and went back to 2002. A fangirl might have come back with me. You have been warned.


( PoA: Chapters 1-2 )

Next time -

FFP: Who let the dogs out?